Emma Stone Was So Confused at Her Chinese Theatre Handprint Ceremony That She Cried

Emma Stone is currently riding a huge fame wave thanks to her award-winning performance in the Hollywood-themed movie La La Land, but she still has some stuff to learn about Tinseltown. Last December Stone and her La La Land costar Ryan Gosling had the honor of imprinting their handprints and footprints into cement to go on display outside the legendary TCL Chinese Theatre in Los Angeles. The ceremony is a pretty big deal—Hollywood greats including Marilyn Monroe, Shirley Temple, Meryl Streep, and Morgan Freeman have all gotten messy for the sake of preserving their hands and feet in cinematic history—but Stone was a little unclear about the whole thing, even while it was happening. She visited Jimmy Kimmel Live Monday night (February 6) and told the talk show host the embarrassing story.

"I had no idea what the hell was going on," Stone revealed to Kimmel. "I thought, They're full…they've got all the hand and footprints. This is just a fun little celebration, and they put it up in a museum somewhere. I don't know why I thought this. It wasn't explained to me, I don't think."

So when an employee gave her a practice slab of cement, she was pretty shocked to discover that it was in fact a practice one, and that she would soon be doing a real one. "I had no idea. And then I burst into tears and really humiliated myself," she said. "And everybody was like, 'I don't understand how you didn't know what this is.'"

Even though Stone was admittedly a little confused at the ceremony, at least she dressed appropriately for the event, donning a yellow dress that nods to her La La Land character's signature outfit that has become iconic. We just hope Stone is a little more clued in at the Academy Awards later this month—lest she babbles adorably and incoherently on stage à la her SAGs acceptance speech.